I understand (and I hope the other people in this list do so too), but I
really think that there should be a separate list for arguing about the
project's philosophy (which is as important, if not more, as this list).
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:20 PM, chris mills chrmi...@gmail.com wrote:
Agreed. Apologies folks, it was a knee jerk reaction to a statement I found
offensive.
ChrisM
On 8 July 2010 19:17, Alex Abate Biral abatebi...@gmail.com wrote:
People, I really think this isn't the right mailing list for this kind of
discussion.
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:11 PM, chris mills chrmi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 8 July 2010 17:40, BGB cr88...@hotmail.com wrote:
however, morals, ... would seem to be degraded in industrialized nations
(note the widespread prevelance of promiscuity, gays, gangs and violence,
...), so this may be a cost associated with industrialization (although
there is not any obvious reason why one would lead to the other). this may
also be a cost of urbanization though, I don't know.
Whoa there, going off topic a bit I know, but I take offence to the
suggestion that homosexuality is evidence of moral degradation. Indeed as an
unashamed european lefty I would argue that discrimination against gays,
minorities, etc is actually greater evidence of moral degradation and this
is thankfully becoming less common in the industrialised world. And I would
suggest you have a word with a Rwandan, Zimbabwean or Afghan (to name but a
few) about whether gangs and violence are worst in the industrialised
nations or non-industrialised. Or if you wish to argue against urbanisation
I am pretty sure that my own country (england) had some pretty nasty
violence before large scale urbanisation - civil wars, violence of
landowners against those living on their land, persecution of
catholics/protestants (depending on whether catholics or protestants were in
charge at the time), burning folks at the stake for unsubstantiated
accusations of witch craft, etc.
A change in the prevailing moral code does not imply a degradation.
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